This compilation is a balance of concepts and styles that showcases bright new talent that pays homage to what came before while producing their own sounds.
Tag: Breaks
Alex Jann :: Cold Light Wave EP (brokntoys)
A well-oiled and tightly packed release to kick off 2024 as we keep our ears peeled for more in what could very well be its own genre titled “cold light wave.”
Tarsiform :: Mechanically Reclaimed Pickings (Pingdiscs)
On these jagged aural experiments, scorched percussive rhythms, tangled vocal samples, and braindance components combine and burst leaving us to believe that Tarsiform is an unusual yet creative force to seriously pay attention to.
Anderdog :: Dog Eat Dog (Mestnost)
An album that develops over time, with hundreds of abstract sonic components somehow melding together succinctly.
QphoriQ :: Wonch like Woo (Diffuse Reality)
Wonch like Woo has speaker cones trembling from the needle drop. Employing elements of D&B, electro and even industrial, QphoniQ dowses his productions in low sub to produce a ruffled and textured effect.
Darqhorse :: Digital Dawn (Diffuse Reality)
Featuring a wide range of breaks, electro, techno, and rhythmic swirls among a deluge of strong beats, bass, and wicked distortion, mile-long soundscapes and panoramas are punctuated by its upbeat attitude and acidic surges.
Greystar :: playground 1 (Self Released)
Playground 1 is an EP of six braindance and brittle melodic data streams that can also be found via previously released compilations—particularly with X4 Records.
Life As Sleep :: Don’t Do Anything (Schematic)
Featuring raw/minimal electro and a smattering of old-school breaks, bass, dub, and technoid patterns…